ingraft
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And 'tis great pitty, that the Noble Moore Should hazard such a Place, as his owne Second With one of an ingraft Infirmitie, It were an honest Action, to say so To the Moore Iago.
From Othello by William Shakespeare
Shall we not then hold fast and cherish such a faith? shall we not seek to understand its nature, and endeavor with our whole hearts to ingraft its principles upon our characters?
From Memoir of Mary L. Ware, Wife of Henry Ware, Jr. by Edward B. Hall
Imps: shoots, branches; from Anglo-Saxon, "impian," German, "impfen," to implant, ingraft.
From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by D. Laing Purves
It was the aim of Italian poets after Boccaccio to effect-481- a fusion between the classical and modern styles, and to ingraft the beauties of antique literature upon their own language.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds
He says that he prefers a monarchy to other governments, because you can better ingraft any description of republic on a monarchy than anything of monarchy upon the republican forms.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
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